[van-announce] May 28: Updated performers and speakers - Migration Matters Root Causes of Displacement

[Charlotte Kates]

- please forward widely -

MIGRATION MATTERS: The Root Causes of Displacement.

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Tuesday May 28th at 6:00 pm
Grandview Calvary Baptist Church
1803 East 1st Ave (just east of Commercial Drive)
Unceded Coast Salish Territories
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Dinner and Childcare provided. FREE EVENT!

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Join us for a presentation hosted by No One Is Illegal - Vancouver,
Unceded Coast Salish Territories to hear how migrant justice is
inseparable from anti-colonial land struggles, the fight against
gentrification, climate justice, anti-war movements, and organizing
against neoliberal trade agreements.

WITH:

* ELLE-MAIJA TAILFEATHERS is Blackfoot from Kainai, also known as the
Blood reserve in Alberta, and Sámi from Arctic Norway. In 2011, she was
arrested in front of a fracking development site on Blood reserve. She is
also an award-winning filmmaker, check out A Red Girl's Reasoning -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEXYuZQy8qQ - and Bloodland -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSfBWMSl1rw

* FORMERLY HOMELESS DAVE is an activist for housing rights in the DTES and
an organizer against gentrification and displacement. His mother is
Skwxwú7mesh and father is from the Carribean. He recently started the
Pidgin pickets and went on a 36-day hunger strike with demands for social
housing and a social justice zone in the DTES, endorsed by DTES resident
groups and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs.

* GIL AGUILAR is a member of CIPO-VAN, the Vancouver branch of the Popular
Indigenous Council of Oaxaca, Mexico. He also works with migrant
agriculture workers and is involved in coalitions organizing for trade,
economic and mining justice in Latin America.

* KATIE ZALAZAR is a queer Filipina feminist and anti-imperialist activist
who is currently organizing with the migrant justice group Sanctuary
Health and the QTIPOCALYPSE collective.

* KHALED BARAKAT is a Palestinian writer and activist. His writings have
been widely published in a variety of Arabic-language media outlets. He is
active with Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and has
co-founded various Palestinian and solidarity organizations in North
America.

* performance by HARI ALLURI, a Vancouver-based Filipino South Asian
filmmaker and poet who was born in Ogbomosho, Nigeria. His poems have
appeared in the following journals, web journals, and zines: 580 Split,
Cutthroat, Lumina, Kartika, TAYO, PULSE and RAIN. His poetry is published
in several chapbooks, and in the Asian Arts Freedom School, Colouring Book
and VONA (forthcoming) anthologies.

* performance by RAZAN ABU-REMAILEH, a Palestinian and Syrian settler of
colour on the stolen and unceded lands of the Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh and
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh nations. They are a community organizer whose work deals with
their own/ancestral experiences of the diaspora and colonialism.

* performance by RUBY SMITH DIAZ, born to Chilean and Jamaican parents on
Blackfoot, Nakoda, and Cree territories. She has found her passion working
with youth as as an arts based social justice facilitator, and brings the
vastness of the prairie skies into the sound of her voice and haunting
melodies on the accordion under the name of Crowlady.


The world continues to suffer from climate change, economic policies,
military wars and colonial occupations. Among the lives that are lost and
the lands that are destroyed are those who are displaced, carrying with
them the stories of injustice. Displaced peoples are the human faces of
economic, social and ecological crises - stateless Palestinian refugees to
the over-representation of Indigenous people in the Downtown Eastside,
climate refugees escaping drowning waters to boats of migrants fleeing
genocidal wars, mining corporations destroying their land, and global
economic imperialism. Justice requires us to fight against displacement at
all levels - for the right to remain, the freedom to move, and the right
to return.


* ACCESSIBILITY INFO: Grandview Calvary Baptist Church’s kitchen’s
entrance is at street level, which gives access to washrooms, kitchen and
lower hall. One washroom has a stall that can accommodate a wheelchair.The
washroom door opening is 86 cm, and the stall door is 61 cm.

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